Michael Douglas vs. Sharon Stone: Did the stars fight before starring in "Basic Instinct?"

Did Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas have a fight before starring in 1992’s “Basic Instinct” together? The actors seem to recall different things about the incident years later.

Sharon claimed they had an “argument” at the Cannes Film Festival leading up to filming the erotic thriller, and they didn’t do a screen test together, according to an interview with Business Insider.

The actress told the outlet, "(He) did not want to put his bare a** out on the screen with an unknown - and I understood that.

"He wouldn't even test with me, but that was also for a different reason: We had an argument prior to that."

Stone recalls the disagreement was about Douglas’s opinion on a close friend of hers.

“A bunch of us were all sitting, and he was talking about someone and their kids. I really, really knew this person he was talking about,” she said.

"So I said something, and he responded to me, saying, 'What the f*** do you know?' It was in regard to a father-child relationship.”

Stone, 67, continued to share how things got heated, adding, “Clearly, it triggered him. So, he screams this at me across a whole group of people. And I'm not the person who goes, 'Oh, excuse me, superstar.' I pushed back my chair and said to him, 'Let's step outside.' That's how we first met.”

"So, fast forward to casting Basic Instinct, I don't think he wanted me to be his co-star," she concluded.

But Douglas, 80, doesn’t remember things the same way and is refuting Stone’s claims. His rep Allen Burry says the “Wall Street” star is “very surprised” by Stone’s claims, adding, “he doesn't remember any argument in that timeframe” between the co-stars.

"He actually only remembers seeing and meeting Sharon for the first time when he saw (director) Paul Verhoeven's screen test of her for Basic Instinct and (Michael) said, 'Absolutely, she's the one,’” Douglas’s rep told PEOPLE.

Burry said, Douglas “definitely spent time” with Stone at Cannes, and later they were promoting “Basic Instinct.” He added, “By the time they'd done the movie, they were friends.”

Despite the conflicting stories, the “Casino” star said the alleged rocky start “worked well in our dynamic” on-screen as Catherine Tramell and Detective Nick Curan. Stone says the “argument” is in the past, and the pair are now good pals.

“Eventually, we became the greatest of friends, to this day,” she said. “I admire him tremendously.”